The Artificery Society campus

Zeal closes her shop for the day and walks to campus, her backpack overstuffed. There is a short search through the more nature infused part of camp for a large tree. Happy with what she has found she sets her backpack on the ground. Zeal takes a grapple hook out of her bag and knots a rope through. She spins the metal anchor around at her hip before launching the hook at the tree. She twitches the rope to try create a loop on the hook. She repeats the throws, climbing the rope when she lands a grapple, and restarts when she messes up the throw.

Latter in the evening, she creates an obstacle course in the grass with house hold items. She runs around pots and lanterns, dodging invisible attacks, and practices her agility. She imagines what traps she may find lurking in the bank and how best to avoid them.

After she tires herself out, she walks around campus looking for tools she could improvise to help defeat what she has learned about the lock. She may not have time to custom order the tools, but she can do more than rely on her old tools.

She sneaks around the campus and pushes how far she can sneak into shops and places unnoticed. She scales random buildings with simliar architecture to the bank. She finds herself sitting in the middle of the greens before a framed freestanding door on the grass. She has her legs crossed and mediates on how to open a door without opening a door. At dusk, she raises and walks back home, but leaves the door for others. Maybe, the students will find their own answers with the door.

Goldrow Bank

Sneaking around guards would strain her abilities, so a direct assault despite being flashy would increase her failure odds. The sewer is likely the best approach for her skill set and would allow for a large variety in entry methods. Though, she is maxed out on her gross quota for the month and really does not want to crawl through some warm, dank bowel. Humanoids can be gross enough on the outside without seeing their insides. That leaves breaking in through the upper floors. She isn't the best climber, but she is confident with perpetration. Besides, all the greats go through the windows and upper floors. What is even the point of robbing a bank if not done with style? She reverses her cape as she approaches the bank and blends into the night.

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She opens a small match-sized box filled with violet paste. A finger slides over the paste and stains violet. She holds the box in hand and forces an eyelid open. She raises a finger to her eye and rubs the paste directly into her cornea. She bites her tongue and curses. Her golden eye shifts violet. She applies the paste to the other eye. Her eyes mud and the earthen flesh around her eyes burn. She approaches the building in a way to give her a shot towards the windows and avoiding being spotted. She wipes her shoes down. She corner peeks to spot any guards and waits for her chance. She pulls a crossbow out of her bag. A bolt with a nasty hooked head loads into the crossbow. A rope attaches at the bolt's base.